Hi, I justall installed RH 6.1 on a PII-233 machine with 3com 10/100BaseT card (known on Linux as 3Com 3c905 100bTX) and it uses IRQ 11. When the installation finished and I reboot, it goes up to "bringing up eth0" and it stuck there forever. Going into Single mode and configuring the card for either DHCP or a self IP gives segmentation fault - but the card gets the IP and I can ping out. Any help here? I will try the latest boot disks now...
Mmmm .. I am running (now) on a PII with qa 3C905B ... installed and working fine ... there has to be some other factor. Granted, the install selects a 3c59x. Granted, install uses the 3c59x driver rather than the 3c90x driver I got with the "latest" kernel off rawhide. Nevertheless, it seems to work fine or you would not be getting this. Gene Gene
I have additional info/problems. This may or may not be the same problem described above. I have a PII 350MHz system with two 3c905B cards installed. One of the interfaces (eth0) has a static IP. The other is attached to a cable modem and I am using "pump" to initialize. Although the 6.1 system as installed by the installer specified 3c59x in /etc/conf.modules, I changed this to pick up the new "official" 3com driver: 3c90x and then rebooted the system. eth0 (static ip) came up fine but eth1 which is initialized by pump (manually) did not. Pump reported that the connection was established but no default route was established and tcpdump refused the interface indicating that eth1 was not "up". Changing back to using the 3c59x drivers eliminated the problem. DO you need additional info? Gene
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I have the same problem as hetz. I installed from the CD RH 6.1 on a PII 333 with a 3com 3c9X card, using DHCP on a DSL connection. During boot up the system hangs forever on "bringing up eth0". Any help?? johnb
Hi, I also have problems with this card, used in a Celeron 333 MHz PC. The card is found and installed, but I cannot access my network. Pinging the loopback works fine, but pinging another machine on the network fails. Another linux machine running RH 5.2 works fine. All machines have static IP's. Marc
I have had a related problem. I am running RH6.1, with an amdk62-500, with an intel pro/100 nic. When initially setting up this machine, during boot, it would hang on 'Configuring Device eth0', possibly due to being set for DHCP, when no DHCP server was available. When running netconf, it would segfault. The problem was resolved by manually editing the conf eth0. It appears that the netconf tool and the linuxconf module for networking don't play well together..
2.4 has a much improved and updated 3c59x driver that has fixed many problems, probably including this one. Also, pump has been replaced by a different dhcp client that tests the status of the ethernet link, which should improve this case. Please reopen this bug if the problem still exists in Red Hat Linux 7.3.